This distribution contains two programs, xrsh and xrlogin.
Both are shell scripts.
Xrsh is designed to allow you to start an X client on a remote machine
with the window displayed on the current server's $DISPLAY. It has
many options that give you the ability to propagate environment
variables (including DISPLAY) to the remote system and works with
various types of X server access control including xauth and xhost.
In X11R4 and previous, xrsh was called "xon". There was a script in
X11R5 by Keith Packard by that name which has no relation to the
originally distributed xon script.
Xrlogin opens a local xterm window and runs rlogin or telnet to
connect to a remote machine.
Starting with the X11R5 version, xrsh has many new features
including a multitude of X access control methods, the ability to pass
arbitrary environment variables to the remote host and the ability to
start a client on a different screen than the current one.
To install on your system, the usual thing is to do an "xmkmf"
followed by a "make install".
IMPORTANT:
If you are running a System V variant, you may need to change the
first line of both scripts from "#!/bin/sh" to ": ".
James J. Dempsey
jjd@bbn.com
4 October 1991
Updated for X11R6: 3 June 1994